Balta1701

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 19, 2012 -> 08:41 AM) It really warmed my heart to see Gordo get an RBI single, even if it wasn't hit hard. It also felt good to see Dunn go the other way on a pitch off the plate away. If he can lay off of the breaking ball in, and hit anything away to the other side, that is huge for his season. I haven't been nearly as paniced about Adam this year as he has really worked the counts well. He is 3-2 all of the time it seems like. Last year he was always 0-2/1-2. Beckham had some really good swings in that at bat.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 19, 2012 -> 02:53 AM) The Red Sox have responded so well to that "teachable" moment so well! Now 4-9. Haven't won a game since he called out Youk.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 19, 2012 -> 07:20 AM) Bartolo Colon had a stretch against the Angels where he threw 38 strikes in a row. Pretty amazing. Wonder what the record is? I think people are trying to figure that out but no one can tell because old box scores don't record individual pitches.

A pointless hr here would be great.

QUOTE (kapzk @ Apr 18, 2012 -> 10:24 PM) Why are they bringing in Reed with a 7 run lead, and when you actually need him in another game you are then stuck with Stewart. When was Reeds last outing?

Kid looked way too down on the way back to the dugout.

First swing ok, second swing terrible.

Yeah Brent, they walked the leadoff hitter to get to you.

Nice swing Gordon!

Ale alejandro ale Alejandro!

Beautiful throw AJ!

Beckham probably has his cup slammed up into him there.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2012 -> 08:56 PM) Well the bulls are up 20 without Rose and Deng. That's tolerable. Ok, it's 29 now. That's better.

Alex rocketed that ball just too close to the RF to get down.

Mark! has a 6-0 lead on the Cubs.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 18, 2012 -> 08:55 PM) So having a bunch that aren't followed, nor enforced, is somehow a better idea? Those rules are violated all over the forum every day. They have been rendered useless because they are too restrictive. The rules should be based on common sense, not some inclusive set of instructions which ultimately result in a chilling of expression so great as to ruin the entire purpose of a message board. The problem there is that we keep those rules because occasionally everyone gets tired of the snark in PHt and we wind up enforcing stronger for a while.

Well the bulls are up 20 without Rose and Deng. That's tolerable.

And IMO, I thought that the line in that thread wasn't crossed until the insults that were removed from that post. Just like id say about the other forums here.

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 18, 2012 -> 08:35 PM) AJ my goodness! Pay the man?

Hey this thing started.

My biggest issue with everything 2k5 just said is tht I think, for example, I can say every single thing e just said about any thread where Joe Cowley is the subject. Constant snide remarks, one upmanship, a pissig contest. Game threads too. The NBA thread too. And Hell, the pet thread too. But people only let it get under their skin back here.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 18, 2012 -> 07:32 PM) It's funny you say that. Moderation ... I don't think is the problem. I think people are just genuinely sick of it. There's a lot of good posters that no longer post here, or on the board in general due in large part to the snarkfest that this has become. I am not sure that this is the issue, do you? Again, I don't think this forum is the issue. I think we've been complaining about how negative and snark filled PHT is since my first year here. And that's not because of this forum or because people disagree strongly about political issues. And people are going to come and go from places like this. Message boards aren't the hot thing any more. Twitter is. So yes some people leave and get annoyed...but they're not leaving here because of the political forum, they're leaving because of the baseball talk quality. And the difference now is that since the hip new thing is some other application, you don't have people breaking down the door to get in.

Ok, I'll start this off. I disagree with a significant chunk of the premise of this discussion. I think that when this area gets a worthwhile topic, it's the most active, interesting, and thought provoking area of the board. I pick up a whole lot of policy details googling to come up with responses to statements back here, and that fills out a very significant chunk of my brain...which I tend to call on every time someone else brings up politics over beer somewhere else. Yes, we occasionally have problems...but among the regular posters, I don't think they're any worse than what we have in the other forums on this board, and i can note a half dozen other threads where people do things that would get lumped into that description, referring to snark & such, outside of this forum. And frankly, I don't think it's a big deal. People want to make snarky comments about Joe Cowley, fine, a snarky comment on tax policy is just fine for me too, as long as it's got some creativity to it. I tend to give a lot of leeway when someone pushes buttons back here. I will often ask someone from the same political side to give the first warning when a person steps over the line, and that has annoyed other mods before, but I think it's useful. The only problem I think we seriously run into too often is having someone come back here, lose it, and start spouting off insults, but that very rarely happens among the people who show up back here more than a few times. But that's where the "We've had a lot of problems in this forum" comes from, because of the occasional person who ignores that particular rule. The one thing the post asks that I agree with...yes, some discussions have been brought up before, a lot. For example, I don't post the same stuff back here that I would have posted back here 5 years ago. I'm not going to post a new study showing something about medicare's cost effectiveness back here unless it really has something revolutionary, because we've been over that. Revolutionary things like "The stuff happening in the Earth's current climate", or a completely new issue cropping up, that's what I wind up coming back here to discuss and post. But...that's not an issue with the existence of the forum, and that's not people getting annoyed with everyone else, that's people not wanting to repeat debates without new facts. I think we do just fine in enforcing this area. I don't think there's more snark here or more annoyance here than anywhere else on the board. I think people ought to know the personal attack rule is the one we're going to enforce the hardest becaused that's the only thing that really no one wants to see, since it just begets more attacks. Finally, I really would dislike being part of a group of admins that just declared some set of subjects off limits because they're controversial or a certain type of politics. I'd really hate to have to decide that it's ok to talk about Ozzie Guillen's love for Castro and the Sandusky case because they fit in other forums but not be able to discuss the Martin case because it's too political, when they're basically the exact same type of discussion.

Diamondbacks put Chris Young (and Geoff Blum) on the DL.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 18, 2012 -> 04:58 PM) but i dont feel banning caulfield is fair, he didnt do anything bad I'm seriously not kidding. It's becoming like Godwin's law...as a Soxtalk thread approaches its 3rd page, the probability of a Joe Cowley mention approaches unity.